Holder for ink or pencil erasers.



No. 772,111. v

' J. L. NICHOLSON 1 E. A. HEMPHILL.

HOLDER FOR INK-ORYPENGIL ERASBRS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14,1903.

N0 MODEL. I

//v VENTOHQ' PATBNTED OCT. 11, 1904.

Patented October 11, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. NICHOLSON AND EDWARD A. HEMPHILL, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

HOLDER FOR INK OR'PENCIL ERASERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 772,111, dated October 11, 1904.

Application filed November 14, 1903. Serial No. 181,222. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern."

Be it known that we, JOHN L. NICHOLSON and EDWARD A. HEMPHILL, citizens of the United States, residing in Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in Holders for Ink or Pencil Erasers, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is perspective view of the invention, while Fig. 2 shows a like view with a clamp designed to connect the holder to a type-Writer.

The object of this invention is to furnish a device to place an eraser (such as are employed in connection with type-writing) in a position for instant use all the time. Heretofore erasers have been a source of great annoyance to the operator of the type-writer in that the article, being small, was continually mislaid or lost amid the papers of the desk or table.

As it appears from the said drawings, A represents a rod or bar of metal. The same may be formed of wire or other suitable material.

B is a loop, formed preferably with a bend of the rod A at the upper end, and the same may be made in the form shown or otherwise. Other means the equivalent of the loop may be employed whereby the cord may be held in a desirable position, as and for the purpose set forth. C is a clamp connected to said rod integral or otherwise and is employed to fasten or attach the invention to a table, stand, or the like, or the same may be arranged to attach the holder to a type-writer or elsewhere, as the case may be. There are many ways and means known and in use which may readily be employed to clamp or attach the said holder firmly in position for use. Therefore we do not confine ourselves to the clamping device shown. D is a thumb-screw, which we sometimes employ in connection with said clamp.

E is a small hole or eye through which one end of the cord is run to fasten in amanner that is obvious. Any means other than the eye may be employed.

F is a rubber or an elastic cord by which the eraser may be attached to the invention and held in position for instant use, as illustrated. The cord, being elastic, will extend or stretch, so that the user of the eraser may employ the same at some distance from the device, and after using the elasticity of the cord will carry the eraser back in position.

Gr represents the eraser, which may be made in any preferred form or shape.

It will be noted that we do not limit ourselves to the details of construction shown, since they may vary and the essentials of the invention herein described be employed.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is

1. An eraser-holder comprising an upright rod with means for securing it to a table or type-writer, a loop formed at the upper end thereof, an' elastic cord fastened at the lower portion of the rod adapted to extend upward through the said loop, that it may stretch out or. retract when the eraser attached thereto is in use, substantially as set forth.

2. An eraser-holder comprising an upright rod, a loop formed at the upper end, a clamping device at the other end, a rubber cord fastened at the lower end thereof and then strung through the said loop that owing to the clasticity of the cord the eraser attached thereto may be used and afterward returned to its nogmal position, as and for the purpose specifie Signed at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, this 29th day of October, 1903.

JOHN L. NICHOLSON.

Witnesses:

WILLIS C. MILES, O. G. RENNAs. Signed at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, this 5th day of November, 1903.

EDl/VARD A. HEMPHILL.

Witnesses:

J. F. DRISCOLL, M. A. TERRY. 

